Growing and challenged, film industry scripts evolution plot

LOS ANGELES - As China's growing film industry is closing in on the world's top box office, it is also experiencing upheavals and pains, Hollywood film industry insiders said.

The challenges include under-reporting of ticket sales, tax evasion, runaway star salaries, declining but still damaging piracy, creative inhibitions, among others.

"If China wants to continue growing a healthy entertainment industry, it must address these issues," said Tom Ara, the resident China expert at Greenberg Trauig LLP, one of America's top law firms.